Kerry Condon

Kerry Condon
Born	4 January 1983 Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

Kerry Condon (born 4 January 1983) is an Irish television and film actress. Best known for her role as Octavia of the Julii in the HBO/BBC series Rome,^[1][2] she also appeared in HBO's short-run series Luck.^[3] She is also the youngest actress ever to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet.

Early life

Kerry Condon was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Condon's family owned fields, there was grass in the fields and she grew up with horses as pets and friends. She left home at 16 to embark upon her acting career.^[3]

Career

In 2001, at the age of 19, Condon originated the role of Mairead in the The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh which she performed at The Royal Shakespeare Company and in 2006 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.^[4] For this production she recorded the song "The Patriot Game" with The Pogues. That same year, Condon played the role of Ophelia in Hamlet, making her the youngest actress to ever play that role for the RSC. In 2009, she appeared in another play by Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan, for which she won a Lucille Lortel award and a Drama Desk Award.

Condon's movie roles include Kate Kelly, Ned Kelly's outlaw sister, in 2003's Ned Kelly and an appearance in the 2003 Irish independent film Intermission with Cillian Murphy, Kelly MacDonald, and Colin Farrell. She was in the 2005 Jet Li action-thriller Unleashed.^[2] She then appeared as Masha, a Tolstoian, in The Last Station, a film about the last months of Tolstoy's life with Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer before playing jockey Rosie Shanahan in 2012's Luck. She voices the artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y., Tony Stark's replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Marvel Studios films Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.^[5]

In 2005 Condon co-starred as Octavia of the Julii, sister of the Roman Emperor Augustus, in the widely acclaimed HBO/BBC series Rome.^[2] Condon appeared in the Season Four premiere of the hit post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Walking Dead playing the role of the character Clara, which aired 13 October 2013.^[6]

Personal life

Condon has two dogs she adopted from the streets of Los Angeles.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Ballykissangel	Mairead Reilly	"Love's Labours", "With a Song in My Heart"
1999	Angela's Ashes	Theresa Carmody
2000	Rat	Marietta
2001	How Harry Became a Tree	Eileen
2003	Ned Kelly	Kate Kelly
2003	Intermission	Café Waitress
2004	The Halo Effect	Jean
2004	Born and Bred	Niamh Copper	"Something Old"
2005	Unleashed	Victoria	Also known as Danny the Dog
2005–07	Rome	Octavia	HBO series
2008	Anatomy of Hope	Jenna	HBO
2009	The Last Station	Masha
2010	The Runway	Grace Thomas
2011	Luck	Rosie	HBO series
2011	This Must Be the Place	Rachel
2013	Dom Hemingway	Melody
2013–14	The Walking Dead	Clara	3 episodes: "30 Days Without an Accident" (season 4: episode 1) "Too Far Gone" (season 4: episode 8) "After" (season 4: episode 9)
2014	Believe	Dr. Zoe Boyle
2015	Better Call Saul	Stacey Ehrmantraut	5 episodes: "Alpine Shepherd Boy" (season 1: episode 5) "Five-O" (season 1: episode 6) "RICO" (season 1: episode 8) "Pimento" (season 1: episode 9) "Amarillo" (season 2: episode 3)
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	F.R.I.D.A.Y.	Voice
2016	Captain America: Civil War

References

1. "Kerry Condon".
2. "Kerry Condon". Retrieved 1 July 2012.
3. Branch, Kathryn (2012-02-17). "Styled to a T: Kerry Condon". The New York Times. T magazine blog. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
4. "Theater Review: Terrorism Meets Absurdism in a Rural Village in Ireland". Nytimes.com. 2006-02-28. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
5. "That Irish accent in Avengers Age of Ultron is actress Kerry Condon!". Irish Examiner. April 23, 2015. Archived from the original on May 3, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
6. "Who's the Irish woman in the new series of the Walking Dead?". Retrieved 19 October 2013.

External links

• Kerry Condon at the Internet Movie Database